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Overkill: Unnecessary Medical Care

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As I read Overkill, I wasn 't surprised about unnecessary medical care, and it 's financial or physical harm. We see this first hand in the nursing field. The article mentioned in 2010, the Institute of Medicine issued a report that Medicine waste accounted for thirty percent of health-care spending, or seven hundred and fifty billion dollars a year, which is more than our entire nation 's budget for K-12 education (Gawande,2015). That doesn 't shock me, it infuriates me! I witnessed some of this waste while working in a nursing home. A patient is placed on a medication, then the doctor comes in and stops it. It 's taken out placed in a discontinued box, and every couple of months the pharmacy picks it up. I 've seen garbage bags picked up. I
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